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Toribor, (edited ) in Automated deployment of systems
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I use Ansible for all my deployments and just got a PXE boot set up with a preseed file to automate the install process and get the host ready to run playbooks.

I’ve been really pleased with this strategy overall. I think that Ansible works really well for programmatically generating config files which in turn makes moving applications between servers effortless. I control docker volume mounts with ansible variables and encrypt secrets with ansible vault so I can do everything all in one place.

Troubleshooting issues is a lot easier and recovering from a backup is faster and a requires less effort since I can just pull down the Ansible config from git and redeploy.

ssokolow, (edited ) in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
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Lemmy hangs whenever I try to post my response (I suspect it doesn’t like the length), so here’s a link to it on Github Gist:

gist.github.com/…/16c9311573eabc7343ff7ff2cc3513b…

It begins as follows and I’ve tried to hyperlink my sources as often as possible:

I’ll try to fill in some of the knowledge gaps and respond to some of your answers from a more user-centric perspective.

vildis, in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

Wayland does not work properly on Nvidia Hardware: It keeps on getting closer but is not there yet, or so I’ve heard. Apparently, the issue is with the proprietary drivers, as noveau works well. But I use AMD, so I’m only working off rumours and opinions here.

Posting this from Hyprland on NVIDIA, arch (btw) and the nvidia-open-dkms driver, but yes, NVIDIA isn’t fully there yet.

Akinzekeel,

I keep reading this all the time but I have the same setup and I don’t understand what’s supposedly wrong or broken with it. It just seems to work fine. What am I missing here?

nayminlwin, in Applications to reduce mouse usage

Don’t reduce it too much. Occasionally reaching for the mouse may save you from RSI.

MrAlternateTape,

If that is the only thing saving you from RSI you’re going to get it anyway.

I’ve had the pleasure, and your body posture and mental state of mind are much more important. Getting up every now and then is also important, changing seat position helps, and doing some sport also helps.

Both of my arms did hurt so much I could not cut my own meat. Mouse or no mouse:(.

Am much better now though.

nayminlwin,

I’m half-kidding about this though. I get that the stuff you mentioned are a lot more important. These are the reasons I started exercising and using break timers.

But the thing with learning keyboard driven workflow is that you tend to develop a habit of spam pressing keys if you can’t immediately think of a way to something with less keyword. Especially in vim. Because if I’m not always pressing something, I don’t feel like an expert enough, damn it! So I resorted to spamming hjkl, lol.

When my RSI problems start to develop. I had to really focus and change that habit to slow down and think of a way to press less keys. But still I stopped using vim key equivalents on browsers though, mouse scrolling relaxes my fingers a bit more than key pressing.

jack, in Applications to reduce mouse usage

Most GNOME applications can be used without mouse

art, in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article
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Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything!

Other should stop just using it because it doesn’t work for you? Wouldn’t it make more sense that those who do work on it keep improving it so it doesn’t break?

NoLifeGaming, in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

Although I don’t currently use Wayland I’m excited and look forward to its continued development.

Metatronz, in A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article

I just got one question. What is cruft?

LeFantome,

Old and useless stuff that builds up over time

andruid, in Introducing UTF-Random — Making Unicode Fair

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Does this mean anything to anyone else? I just see question marks (on Lemmy and Fenic)

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WheelcharArtist, in 6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux

open office? really??

sv1sjp,
@sv1sjp@lemmy.world avatar

Time Traveling is a thing as we can see

30p87, in 6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux

nvim + LaTeX extension

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Snowcap7567,

And sc-im for spreadsheets

bbbhltz, in 6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

Here is the list with my opinions:

  1. ONLYOFFICE (I might need to give it a try again some day)
  2. OpenOffice (should probably stop including it in repos)
  3. CryptPad (more of a Google Docs alternative)
  4. SoftMaker FreeOffice (never heard of it)
  5. WPS Office (nah, thanks)
  6. Calligra (looks good on KDE)
ares35,
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onlyoffice is what i use, on linux and windows.

i think that the libreoffice people should have re-joined openoffice once their main gripe (oracle) was out of the picture, which wasn't long after they split-off and released their first forked version.

LeFantome,

The only benefit that OpenOffice had was the name. Given the momentum that LibreOffice had early on, OpenOffice should clearly have joined with them and maybe ceded the name.

I am glad that LibreOffice did not try to merge back with OpenOffice as clearly it remains a poorly managed project. The continued existence of OpenOffice is doing tremendous damage to the wider ecosystem. The fact that Apache continues to promote the project not only reflects badly in them but show what poor stewards they are. I would not have wanted their lead ship to have hampered the subsequent success of LibreOffice. The whole episode just proves that LibreOffice was right to break away and not just because of Oracle.

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

a combined openoffice project would be different than what it or libreoffice is today.

vzq, in 6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux

If we are doing online and non free, just use office365 or Google docs. At least your project mates won’t hate you.

kingmongoose7877,
@kingmongoose7877@lemmy.ml avatar

No…they hate you regardless.

crypto, in Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default

@leo Leo, you have Stockholm syndrome. Linux Desktop is a disaster.

crypto, in Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default

@leo Firefox keeps locking up the RAM. Good job, Mozilla. I need to install 128 GB of RAM just to use your browser.

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